Editing a waveform in SoundForge v12

David-Hopper wrote on 4/29/2020, 9:14 AM

I was editing a waveform in SoundForge v12 and got a "encountered improper argument" error. What does it mean? thx

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rraud wrote on 4/29/2020, 9:42 AM

Welcome to the Sound Forge community @David-Hopper

What specifically were you attempting to do? Does this error message appear frequently, and on different files types?

David-Hopper wrote on 4/29/2020, 11:10 AM

Hi Rick, thanks for your answer. Yes, I left out I was editing the waveform then I wanted to save the file as an MP3. The waveform was originally in a *.m4a format. So it was clicking on the Save As function that generated the error message. Ideas?

rraud wrote on 4/29/2020, 1:24 PM

HI David, I can't think of anything off-hand for the error message, but there are two options you can try as a work-around.
- Save the edited file as a PCM <.wav> file. Then encode an MP3 from that.
- Open the <.m4a> file in the proxy mode, which is similar to the above, but does not create a saved intermediate file. "Options> Preferences> General" Check-mark the "Always proxy compressed formats" .